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Jonas Mekas Acting Filmography (154)
A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023·Self (archive footage)
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022·Self
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
Vertigo
2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022·Jonas Mekas
Fragments of Paradise
2022·Self (archive footage)
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
The Velvet Underground
2021·Self
Back from New York
2021·Himself
The Invisible Father
2021·Self (archive footage)
9/11: Life Under Attack
2021·Self
Tapes
2020
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020·Himself
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019·Self
Cinema and Sanctuary
2019·Self
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019·Self
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019·Narrator (voice)
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018·Self
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Nitsch
2018
Beyond the Bolex
2018·Self
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017·Self
On the Holy Spirit
2016
I Had Nowhere to Go
2016·Himself
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016·Self
EXPRMNTL
2016·himself
Últimas correspondencias
2016·Self
All About Bolex
2015
A Report from Venice
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015·Self
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015·Sé stesso
My Birthday
2014
River of Fundament
2014·Wake Guest
My Conversations on Film
2013·Himself
What Is Cinema?
2013·Self
Jonas in the Jungle
2013·Self
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012·Jonas Mekas
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012·Himself
Reminiscences from Germany
2012·Himself
Guest
2011·Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011·Himself
My Mars Bar Movie
2011·himself
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011·Himself
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011·Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Lavender
2010·Self
Visionaries
2010·Himself
New York Conversations
2010
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2010·himself
The Signing
2009
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009·Self
It Came from Kuchar
2009·Self (archive footage)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009·Himself
Doc
2008·Himself
Question a Day
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008·Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007·Self
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007·Self
365 Day Project
2007·Self
Sunday December 30, 2007
2007·Self
Anger Me
2006·Himself
Notes on Marie Menken
2006·Self
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Who Gets to Call It Art?
2006·Self
The Song of Central Park
2006·Himself (voice)
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006·Self
The Definition of Insanity
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
2005·Self
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004·Mekas
Not in Our Name
2003·himself
Axiom of Choice
2003·Self
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
2002·Himself
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002·Himself
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
2002
A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000·Narrator (voice)
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2000·Himself
Laboratorium Anthology
1999·Himself
Letter to John from Jonas
1999
My Country is Cinema
1998·Self
Song of Avignon
1998·Self
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
1998
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997·Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997·Self
Michael Snow Up Close
1996·Himself
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1996·Himself
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
1996·Himself
Nico Icon
1995·Self
Jonas in the Desert
1994·Self
Jonas Mekas in Budapest
1993·Himself
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
1992
Award
1992·Himself
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
1991·Himself
Just Visiting This Planet
1991
Quartet Number One
1991
Step Across the Border
1990·Butterfly Wing
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990·Self
Belladonna
1989
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
1989·Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986·Self (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986·Himself
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986·Self
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Persistence of Vision
1984·Self
Strong Medicine
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
J. Mekas
1980·Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980·Self
Self-Portrait
1980·Himself
ORG
1979·Self (archive footage)
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979·Himself
Notes for Jerome
1978·Self
Four Shadows
1978
Cinématon
1978·N°1590
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976·Self
Postcard from America
1975
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Going Home
1972·Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972·Self
Imagine
1972·Self
Journey to Lithuania
1971·Himself
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1971·Self
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970
Filmmakers
1969·Himself
Jonas
1968·Himself
Underground New York
1968·Self
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968·Self
The Song of Avila
1967·Narrator
Poem Posters
1967·Self
Galaxie
1966·Self
The Love Merchant
1966·Lounge Patron
Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
1966·himself
Shooting Guns
1966
Jonas in the Brig
1965·Himself
Dirt
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965·Self
Empire
1965·Self (uncredited)
Salvador Dalí at Work
1964·Self
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964·Self
Diane the Zebra Woman
1962
The Sin of Jesus
1961